Furniture-pad



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' G. H. LEWIS.

FURNITURE PAD.

Patented Dec. 5. 1882.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFI E,

GEORGE E. LEWIS, OF ANDOVER, MASSACHUSETTS.

FURNITURE-PAD.

- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 268,697, dated December 5, 1882,

Application filed September 7, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be itknown that I, GEORGE H. LEWIS, of

.Andover, county of Essex, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in FurniturePads, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification.

My in ention relates to an elastic cushion or pad such as may be employ ed at the ends of chair-legs or articles of furniture or other similar places toprevent noise and reduce the wear of the carpets, &c. The said cushion consists of a piece of rubber of suitable shape to be applied to the desit ed articles, the said cushion.

materialsuch as coarse cloth orcanvas-fitted over the shank of the screw and united to the face of the rubber in the process of vulcanizing it, so as to prevent a sufiicient stretching of the said rubber to permit it to be withdrawn from the head of the screw.

Figure l is a longitudinal vertical section of a cushion or pad applied to the legof a chair or other piece of furniture, and Fig. 2 an'under side view thereof. m

The said cushion or pad consists essentially of a wood-screwg, comprising the usual threaded or, preferably, gitnlet-pointed shank and slotted head to be engaged by a screw driver, and the cushion of pad b, of rubber, inclosing the head of'the said'screw a, and provided with a slot; or passage, 0, through which a screw-driver may be inserted to turn the said screw to into the article to which the cushion is to be applied. In order to prevent the rubber from being removed from the head of the screw, the said cushion b is provided with a washer, d,-ot substantially non-elastic matcrial--suh as apiece ofcoarse canvas or fabric titted to the shank of the screw and united to the face of the cushion b, so as wholly prevent its stretching and the consequent possibility of escapingorbeingpulled from the said screwhead. In manutacturingthecushion the screw u,pruvided with the washer d on its shank, is placed in one side of a two-part mold, the other side of which is provided with a metallic prtjection shaped like the end of a screwdriver and entering the slotof the said screw. The said mold is tilled with the usual rubber material, which is then vulcanized therein in the usual manner, the rubber firmly uniting with the washer d in the said process of vulcanizing, anl tightly inclosing the screw a, so as to form in appearance a wood-screw having a large flexible or elastic head of rubber. in

case the slot c should not be in line with the slot of the screwuhead, the rubber might. become detached from the said screw-head, but in the process of turning the screw into the wood the said rubber would rotate until the end of the screw-driver was broughtinto line with and engaged the slot of the screw a, alter which it would act positively with the said screw to turn it into the wood.

I claim- The combination, with the screw having a threaded shank and slotted head, of the slotted rubber cushion inclosing the said head andthe non-elastic washer united to the face. of the said rubber, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof {have signed my name tot'his specification in the presenceof two subscribing witnesses.

' GEORGE H. Lewis. Vitnesses:

Jos. P. LIVERMORE, BERNICE J. NoYEs. 

